Fri Sep 27, 7:30pm
CyberView from the Hill - Last Week
CyberView from the Hill - This Week
Late ChangesTeam was 1-17. Lowe and Keary were 18th and 19th men
LOSS 20-30
A transformed Manly ruined South Sydney's NRL grand final dream, running away 30-20 preliminary final winners at Sydney's Olympic stadium on Friday night. The Rabbitohs, looking to play in their first grand final in 42 years, were ahead 14-0 after 11 minutes, but the Sea Eagles put 30 points past the favourites without response, including a try-of-the-season contender from David Williams. Sea Eagles coach Geoff Toovey lauded his side's ability to "hang in there", saying the spectre of a grand final may have got to the Rabbitohs' heads. "I thought both sides were tired there for a while. Souths started off fantastic, we made a lot of mistakes but they played some good football," he told Grandstand. "Maybe [their start] took a bit of juice out of them, maybe the excitement of the finals did as well. Our guys just hung in there, and if you hang in there long enough the scoreboard can turn, which it did. "We knew Souths were a quality side, leading the competition for most of the year. We knew that if we hung in there we had the players to do it." Maybe [the Rabbitohs' start] took a bit of juice out of them, maybe the excitement of the finals did as well. Manly coach Geoff Toovey South Sydney coach Michael Maguire - who showed tremendous courage after his mother died earlier Friday - said his side failed to live up to its defensive potential. "I knew we still had a lot of work to do. Manly are a team that keep coming back at you," "Unfortunately we weren't able to get on the right side of the scoreboard in the second half. "They came at us very quickly, and defensively we probably didn't do things the way we're capable. "In these sort of games they take their opportunities, and unfortunately they got us." It looked all too easy at first for Souths when John Sutton scored the easiest of tries, throwing a dummy before powering over inside seven minutes, before Nathan Merritt sped over on the left wing. But Manly responded well to a bad start, with Brett Stewart running onto brother Glenn's clever grubber kick to open the Sea Eagles' account. The Bunnies survived a late onslaught from Manly before the half-time siren, but more pain was to follow five minutes into the second stanza. Matt Ballin reduced the deficit to just two points on 45 minutes, before Glenn Stewart and Daly Cherry-Evans combined to send captain Jamie Lyon over in the right corner. Lyon converted his own try to take him to 1000 career points for the Sea Eagles - only the fourth Manly player to do so - but more fireworks were to follow when Williams chalked up a sensational try in the right corner. Williams looked to catch a high pass behind his head with his left hand, before spinning his body in one movement and somehow grounding the ball inside the corner flag, all while keeping his body marginally in play despite pressure from Greg Inglis. In these sort of games [Manly] take their opportunities, and unfortunately they got us. Rabbitohs coach Michael Maguire Lyon and Cherry-Evans combined again, this time defensively, to pressure Dylan Walker into grounding inside his own goal-line. Todd Simons then put the icing on Manly's cake, charging down an Adam Reynolds kick to find himself in acres of space to run home an easy try. There was late consolation for the Rabbitohs as Walker scrambled home a try, but the only smiles were on Manly faces as the Sea Eagles advanced to their 20th grand final.
4 min 2-0
6 min 8-0
11 min 14-0
19 min 14-6
44 min 14-12
57 min 14-18
61 min 14-24
72 min 14-30
79 min 20-30
Merritt, Sutton, Walker tries
Reynolds 3 from 3, Luke 1 from 1 goals
Crowd 44,546
Referee B.Cummins/G.Sutton
Penalities 5-3
Scrums 12-9
Min Tac Pe MT LB HU DR m Er OL K TA T G/A FG
Flbk Inglis 80 7 - 1 1 12 - 133 - - 1 1 - - -
LWng Merritt 80 4 1 1 - 8 1 68 1 - - - 1 - -
LCnt Goodwin 80 20 - 2 1 5 - 54 1 1 - 1 - - -
RCnt Walker 80 17 1 3 1 9 1 75 1 - - - 1 - -
RWng Farrell 80 8 - 1 - 7 - 50 2 - - - - - -
5/8 Sutton 80 24 - 1 1 10 2 71 - 1 5 - 1 - -
Half Reynolds 80 20 - 3 - 1 1 11 1 - 11 - - 3/3 -
Prop Tyrrell 35 12 - - - 13 - 81 - - - - - - -
Hook Luke 80 31 - 2 - 10 8 80 3 2 - - - 1/1 -
Prop Burgess.L 40 20 - - - 9 - 56 1 - - - - - -
SRow Burgess.S 80 31 - 3 - 19 - 159 2 2 - - - - -
SRow Te'o 59 27 1 - - 8 - 67 - - - - - - -
Lock Lima 50 28 - 4 - 8 - 65 - - - - - - -
Int Clark 38 21 - - - 6 - 36 - - - - - - -
Int Asotasi 18 15 - - - 3 - 26 - - - - - - -
Int McQueen 31 14 - 1 - 3 - 17 - 1 - - - - -
Int Burgess.G 49 36 - 1 - 13 - 95 1 - - - - - -
TOTAL 335 3 23 4 1146 13 7 17 2 3 4/4 -
Completion Rate 26/39 67%
Opposition Offloads 10
Effective 1st Tackles
3 min 18m MW 6TG SCR SS Err(Luke)
4 min 0m MW Err / P GOAL
5 min 9m Reynolds kick
6 min 0m P / TRY
9 min 15m Reynolds kick COF
11 min 0m MW Err SCR / TRY
14 min 14m Reynolds kick COF
16 min 16m MW Err SCR / Reynolds kick SS Err(Reynolds) SCR
18 min 73m MW Err / SS Err(LBurgess) SCR
22 min 28m Sutton kick
24 min 75m DO
25 min 4m MW Err SCR / Reynolds kick
27 min 22m Sutton kick
29 min 96m SCR SS Err(Luke)
31 min 51m MW Err SCR / Sutton kick 7m / SS P(Te'o)
33 min 80m SS Err(Farrell) SCR
35 min 98m MW Err SS Err(Walker)
38 min 20m P / P / SS Err(Luke) SCR
half time
40 min 26m Reynolds kick COF
42 min 10m Reynolds kick
43 min 68m DO / (MW TRY)
49 min 0m P / Sutton kick CIG
50 min 4m Inglis kick / Reynolds kick
51 min 21m MW Err / SS Err(SBurgess) NO TRY
53 min 24m MW Err SCR / Sutton kick SS Err(Merritt)
55 min 75m Reynolds kick SCR 16m / SS P(Farrell) / (MW TRY)
60 min 40m Reynolds kick / (MW TRY)
64 min 5m Reynolds kick
66 min 58m SS Err(Goowdin) SCR
67 min 92m SS 6TG(Farrell) SCR
68 min 75m DO
70 min 21m MW Err SCR / Reynolds kick COF
72 min 100m MW Err SCR / Reynolds kick ChDn (MW TRY)
74 min 28m MW Err / SS Err(GBurgess) NO TRY
75 min 88m MW Err SCR / SS Err(Goodwin) SS P(Merritt)
77 min 28m MW Err SCR / SS Err(SBurgess)
79 min 0m SCR / MW 6TG TRY
Average effective 1st tackle location
- 37.4m - for the whole match
- 34.4m - 1st half 619 / 18 / 16
- 40.2m - 2nd half 763 / 19 / 18
If you now remove the tries
- 38.7m - 1st half
- 42.4m - 2nd half
Other FG Matches
40-14 (1v3) SFS Sydney b Newcastle
Judiciary News
No one was charged out of the match.
Other U20 Matches 54-38 (3v1) StAu Warriors b Canterbury 36-20 (2v4) SFS Penrith b Canberra
NSW Cup Final
v Cronulla-Sutherland, Leic Sun Sep 29 3:00pm
LOSS 6-38
Late Changes Everingham replaced Bucket on the wing, with King starting in the centers. Keary started at half, Lowe at lock. Koroisau and Hyland moved back to the bench. Fepuleai and Lupi dropped off the bench. Final line up -
Flbk - Justin Hunt Wing - Andrew Everingham Cntr - Shaune Corrigan Cntr - Matt King Wing - Curtis Johnston 5/8 - Darren Nicholls (c) Half - Luke Keary Prop - Josh Starling Hook - Nathan Peats Prop - Tom Burgess SRow - Bennett Leslie SRow - Kyle Turner Lock - Ben Lowe Int - Apisai Koroisau Int - Matt Hyland Int - Greg Nichols Int - Joey Matapuku
Another impressive display of attacking football has seen the VB NSW Cup Sharks score a convincing 38-6 victory over the North Sydney Bears to book a place in the Grand Final next Sunday. Tom Burgess left the field at the 5 min mark fter injuring his neck. The Sharks jumped to an early advantage, defended stoutly for the next period of the game before three more first half tries saw them take a 20-0 lead to the break. There was no complacency in the second period as the Sharks went on with the job to set up a Grand Final match up with the Windsor Wolves. Centre Stewart Mills got the ball rolling for the Sharks with the first of three tries he would score on the day in finishing off a smart movement in the sixth minute of the match to open his teams' account. Townsend uncharacteristically missed the relatively simple conversion but the Sharks had a 4-0 lead early in the contest. On the back of a couple of penalties and some Sharks errors the Bears controlled the next 15 minutes or so of the match but the Cronulla defense was unbreakable, with Mills, Tupou Sopoaga and Nathan Gardner coming up with last ditch tackles to save four pointers and keep their team in front. Buoyed by their defensive effort the Sharks grew in confidence, with hooker Pat Politoni scoring after a Junor Moors line break, Townsend touching down in backing up a strong run from Kirisome Auva’a, before Mills crossed for his second when re-gathering his own grubber kick. The Sharks onslaught sent them to the break 20-0 ahead while leaving their opponents shell-shocked and searching for answers. Gardner would go over in the early moments of the second half to drive the nail in a little further, with Mills scoring his third, before an individual effort from Penani Manumalealii would round out the Sharks scoring. The Bears would score a consolation try in the dying moments but it was too little too late with the Sharks far too good on the day. Matt King was honored in his last game with a guard of honor as he left the field.
8 min 0-4 27 min 0-8 30 min 0-14 38 min 0-20 41 min 0-26 46 min 0-32 53 min 0-38 77 min 6-38 D.Nicholls tries Koroisau 1 from 1 goals Other NSW Cup Matches 36-32 (1v3) Leic Windsor b Newcastle
Grand Final Weekend - Oct 6
NRL Grand Final
Other FG Matches 26-18 StAu (1v2) Sydney b Manly
NYC U20 Grand Final
Other NYC Matches 42-30 StAu (2v1) Penrith b Warriors
NSW Cup Grand Final
Other NSW Cup Matches
36-8 StAu (2v1) Cronulla b Windsor